Oregon Social Learning Center

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A non-profit research center dedicated to strengthening children, families, and communities.

The non-profit Oregon Social Learning Center is a collaborative, multidisciplinary research center dedicated to increasing the scientific understanding of social and psychological processes related to healthy development and family functioning. We apply that understanding to the design and evaluation of interventions that strengthen children, adolescents, families, and communities.

What we do.

• Develop, test, and refine parent education and parent management skills training programs for specific populations.

• Develop and improve child and family assessment techniques, including direct observational coding systems for child, peer, and family interactions.

• Examine social and biological variables simultaneously in studies of family interaction and child development.

• Examine the influence of culture and acculturation on child and family adjustment.

• Identify family and peer group social interaction patterns and other factors related to the development of youth problem behaviors such as aggression, delinquency, and substance use, and to the development of adult problem behaviors, such as substance abuse, domestic violence, and crime.

• Design and implement multimodal interventions for children and parents that encourage successful, prosocial adjustment within family, school, and community settings.

• Apply advanced statistical methodology to the analysis of longitudinal data on family and peer processes and other theoretical predictors of child and adult outcomes.

• Partner with agencies, systems, and communities to conduct high quality research studies.

• Move interventions for families and children from the laboratory into community systems, such as schools, juvenile justice, child welfare, and corrections, and study child and family outcomes.
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